Combined mop and wringer.



W. J. BARBER.

COMBINED MOP AND WRINGER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. NH.

MUTE/WEBER tltl {specification oi Letters Patent.

Patented nee, ii, tart.

application filed February 19, 191?. Flerial 1t 0. 'ltt9,lli2.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l llrnnmiu Jenn Banana, a citizen or the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State oi Ohio, has invented certain new and useful Ilmprovements in Combined Mops and i l ringers, 01 which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined mop and wringer, which is of simple construetion and more elleetually and readily operated than the mop oi my invention disclosed in Letters Patent l lo. 1,00d,965, October 3, 1911.

in the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved wringer inop it appears under the pressure 01' floor wiping operations, only a section oil the handle being; shown. Fig. 2 is a side view ot the same device tolded as in wringing operations, and Fig. 3 is a front view or hip. Figs. 1 and 5 are perspective views 01 the linlr and holder plate, respectively.

The invention involves the use out a mop 2 ol cloth or other pliable material suitable tor the purpose, which is :l'astened to a handle 2 by a folding holder 3 and a crank l, whereby the mop 2 may be stretched in tlat wiping engagement with the floor upon inclining the handle and bringing pressure to bear thereupon, and whereby the mop may also be wrung to remove the water after wipinp; operations by rotating the crank member at and rigidly setting the holder at substantially right angles to the handle, substantially as shown in Figs. 1 and 9, re speetively. in my tormer device, these purposes were accomplish :d by utilizing a slidable holder for the mop, but ll find that a more el'lective action and durable construction is obtained by hingine; the holder to told and untold at two pivotal points in the connections. it simple and inexpensive arrangement of parts based on this concept comprises a split ferrule member 5 :tastened the end 01 the handle or stick 2 by crimpinp; its sides 6 upon the handle and riveting the ends together through cars 'l by a pivot pin 8, and also securing it in place by a tubular rivet 1, and the straight portion 9 of the crank member extends through this tubular rivet and the stick. rt rotatable hand grip 10 serves to turn the crank, and a loop 11 forms part 01 the cranlr beneath the handle and the cloth mop 2 is secured at one end to this loop while the other end thereof is secured to a spreading; eye 15.2 termed at the bottom or outer end or the wire holder 3 which rigidly and innnovably tlastened upon a plate 1d pivotally suspended from a link member 15 in ll'll'lpgml Connection with pivot 8. Plate 11 is provided with clasp portions 16 bent around the straight parallel divisions 17 or the wire within the stop limits defined by the rounded shoulders 18 therein, and the sides of the plate are projected upwardly to one side of the plane of the plate to afford a set of cars 19 between which the side flanges of linlr member 15 are adapted to rest and be lastened by the pivot and rivet pin Q0. The upper or'inner end :21 of holder 3 is also or spreading loop formation to ailord a flat extended pressure medium adapted to flatten the mop and hold it to the tloor in mopping operations, and the intermediate divisions 22 or" the wire holder are curved or spread laterally at each side of the median line to attain. the same object. The pivot connection is relatively near the inner end 21 of the wire holder, and the length ot the link member 15, or more definitely, the distance between the pivot pins 8 and 20, proportioned to correspond to the extension inward of the loop end 21 so that when the parts are folded to place the holder at right angles to the handle as shown. in Fig. 52; that the end 21 will come inside oi? the handle and bear against the cars l' of the terrule morn her 5, thereby making a rigid right-angled extension of the handle when pull is imposed upon the outer eye or loop 12 oi wire holder 3 by twisting; or wringing ot the mop 2 upon rotating cranlr member 1-. Un the other hand, where the mop is in action upon the floor, the linflr :lnember 15 is adapted to fold and rest substantially flat upon the plate 1 1 with the pivot pin 8 forward of the pin 20 and nearer the middle of the holder 3- so that pressure upon the handle may be applied more eltectively upon the mop in wiping;- operations. in etl'ect, a double hinge is provided tor the mop trame which acts with perfect treedom but establishes positive working positions or the parts tor wiping and wringing; operations of the mop.

What 1 claim is:

1. r1 handle having; a terrule member. a flanged linlr pivotally united with said lien rule member, a plate having lateral projections pivotally united with said link a Wire holder afliXed to said plate having an outer spreading end and a relatively shorter inner end adapted to bear against said ferrule in one folded position of the parts, a crank member upon said handle, and a mop connected With said crank member and the outer spreading end of said Wire holder.

2. A handle having a flanged link member pivotally supported thereon and a flanged plate member pivotally secured to at its ends and clamped between its ends in said plate member, a crank rotatably mounted in said handle and having a looped end portion, and a mop secured to said looped portion at one end and to the outer loop of said holder at the other end.

Signed at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, this (3th day of February, 1917.

WILLIAM JOHN BARBER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

